Robert Merkel

Congratulations on the establishment of this blog; it is indeed an interesting experiment that I hope goes welll. It is important, if you want to make a go of it, that it genuinely is a two-way process. Of course, there will be occasions where the tone of comments on this blog strongly oppose some policy that the government decides to take. It is essential o the success of the project that an effort is made to engage those who respectfully and thoughfully disagree with you. If that does not occur, the inevitable conclusion will be that the "blog" is just a venue for press releases.